"One Picture And One Story Week #79

The struggle is real
But man has to hustle
To keep food on the Table

I just fold my hands, lost in thought of how humans suffer just to keep food on the table, it just takes a cycle, from hand to mouth no chance to make plans or an investment. Now I can fully accept that;

"Money is the root of all evil"

People do a lot of things just to get money, they don't care anymore about the effects or consequences of what they do, they are just after getting the money. Why are they thieves?, armed robbers?, corruption?, all because of money!!.

This leads to my story, in the course of hustling for money, two people crossed paths, a trader and a scavenger. This is a popular market in my state where different things are being sold, ranging from foodstuffs to clothes and lot of things, the trader has a provision of foodstuffs which she retails, the scavenger who on his on course wanted to buy water from the trader.

She was attending to many customers as well, after selling for the scavenger he left quickly, the woman noticed that the huge money she collected from a trader was missing, she quickly rushed to where the scavenger was heading to, and started to call him thief, as usual people pounced on him and started to be beat him up, maybe the way he was dressed made them conclude that he will be the thief.

After much struggles and intervention, he kept saying he his not with the money, the woman ran back to inspect her shop and she noticed and quickly remembered that she placed the money inside a leather bag in her shop, drowned in emotions she went back to tell them. He was wounded and bruised without being guilty.

We should always try to make a proper investigation on things before coming to conclusions.

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I would love to invite @davidmarkgeorge @impersonal @etoro to join